Summary
First Trust Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 65. The ten largest make up 38% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.85%
- Fund size
- $383.4M
- Positions
- 65
- Dividend yield
- 6.90%
- Running since
- 2014
What speaks for it
- It has been running since 2014.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.85% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.20%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 37% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- +0.4%
- 3 months
- -1.3%
- This year
- -4.0%
- 1 year
- -2.7%
- 3 years
- +7.6%
- 5 years
- -11%
- 10 years
- -33%
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 THAILAND GOVERNMENT BOND N/C, 3.39%, due 06/17/2037 5.2%
- 2 INDIA GOVERNMENT BOND N/C, 7.18%, due 07/24/2037 4.4%
- 3 MEX BONOS DESARR FIX RT N/C, 7.50%, due 05/26/2033 4.2%
- 4 MALAYSIA GOVERNMENT N/C, 2.632%, due 04/15/2031 4.1%
- 5 INDONESIA GOVERNMENT N/C, 8.375%, due 03/15/2034 3.6%
- 6 BONOS DE TESORERIA N/C, 6.90%, due 08/12/2037 3.5%
- 7 INDONESIA GOVERNMENT N/C, 8.25%, due 05/15/2036 3.5%
- 8 INDONESIA GOVERNMENT N/C, 9%, due 03/15/2029 3.4%
- 9 POLAND GOVERNMENT BOND N/C, 6%, due 10/25/2033 3.4%
- 10 NOTA DO TESOURO NACIONAL N/C, 10%, due 01/01/2035 3.1%
Positions in the fund: 65. The ten largest make up 38% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $85.00
- Over 20 years
- $3,981
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $85.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $3,981.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -3.9%
- Deepest drop
- -37%
- Yearly volatility
- 8.8%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 3.9%. Deepest drop in these years: 37% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 6.90%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.20
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.97 per share, which is 6.90% of today's price. The last payment was $0.20 on Oct 21, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Yes- Traded a day
- $2.62M
- Shares a day
- 92K
On an average day about $2.62M of the fund changes hands.